noiseredux wrote:as a common courtesy, I read through both links you posted. What I see is benchmark numbers that that look good on "paper," but don't actually cite any real world examples of specific games that benefit from the i7. Like I said above. You can point to someone saying that you can get an extra 2-3 FPS out of the i7... which I'm not sure the human eye would be able to detect.
So your big knock against my CPU purchase is "haha! you spent $100 more to get better performance outside of games with only negligible boosts in current game frame rates! LULZ!"
dsheinem wrote:
So your big knock against my CPU purchase is "haha! you spent $100 more to get better performance outside of games with only negligible boosts in current game frame rates! LULZ!"
Oh, burn!
no. I don't really have a knock against you. Like I said, if you actually use your PC to do really intensive video editing or whatever, it makes great sense in your rig. But if we're talking about gaming then I can't find any real world benefit that would justify the price difference. I don't see 2-3 frames per sec as being something you'd know was "better" if there weren't an FPS-counter on the screen. So for a purely gaming build playing games today, while benchmarks come out better in numbers, I feel like those numbers mean nothing when you're playing the game. It's not a knock on you - seriously. It's just my opinion of the hardware as a vehicle for gaming.
dsheinem wrote:
So your big knock against my CPU purchase is "haha! you spent $100 more to get better performance outside of games with only negligible boosts in current game frame rates! LULZ!"
Oh, burn!
no. I don't really have a knock against you. Like I said, if you actually use your PC to do really intensive video editing or whatever, it makes great sense in your rig. But if we're talking about gaming then I can't find any real world benefit that would justify the price difference. I don't see 2-3 frames per sec as being something you'd know was "better" if there weren't an FPS-counter on the screen. So for a purely gaming build playing games today, while benchmarks come out better in numbers, I feel like those numbers mean nothing when you're playing the game. It's not a knock on you - seriously. It's just my opinion of the hardware as a vehicle for gaming.
